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🗓️ 12 August 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The great Meg Guliford joins Erin and Radha for this week's episode of Bombshell, while Loren enjoys a much deserved vacay. The ladies take a tour of world hotspots with a discussion of North Korean missile tests, the Kashmir crack down, and ongoing protests in Hong Kong. Radha schools us all on currency manipulation before we turn to Director of National Intelligence drama. The show wouldn't be complete without an exploration of domestic terrorism and white supremacist violence — alongside a heartfelt celebration of Toni Morrison

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Meg Guliford

North Korea

Dagyum Ji, "Kim Jong Un Guided Test-Fire of New "Superior Tactical" Weapon on Saturday: KCNA," NK News, August 11, 2019
Josh Smith, David Brunnstrom, "US Still Hopes for Talk After Latest North Korean Missile Tests," Reuters, August 12, 2019

Kashmir

Sameer Yasir, Susasini Raj, and Jeffrey Gettleman,"Inside Sashmir, Cut Off from the World: A Living Hell of Anger and Fear," New York Times, August 10, 2019
Atul Singh and Manu Sharma, "What Lies Behind India's Bold Bet on Kashmir?" Fair Observer, August 10, 2019
Ashan I. Butt, "India Just Pulled Jammu and Kashmir's Autonomy. Here's Why That is a Big Deal for This Contested Region," Washington Post, August 7, 2019

Hong Kong

Alice Fung and Yanan Wang, "Tear Gas Fired in Hong Kong With No End In Sight to Protests," AP News, August 11, 2019
Michael C. Davis and Victoria Tin-bor Hui, "In Hong Kong, What Happens Now That Beijing Has Called the Protests a 'Color Revolution?" Washington Post, August 10, 2019
"Hong Kong Protests: Key Dates as Peaceful Rallies Against Extradition Bill Turn to Violent Clashes," Channel News Asia, August 8, 2019
Andrew Thomas, "What's the Economic Cost of Hong Kong Protests?" Aljazeera, August 7, 2019
Ho-Fung Hung, Thomas Kellogg, Antony Dapiran, and Victoria Tin-Bor Hui, "Will Hong Kong Unravel?" China File, August 7, 2019

DNI

Zachary Cohen, "Top Intel Official Interrupted Meeting to Urge His Deputy to Resign," CNN, August 9, 2019
Alison Durkee, " John Ratcliffe Is Already Out As Trump's DNI Pick," Vanity Fair, August 2, 2019
Amy Zegart, "The Next Director of National Intelligence: A Thankless Job is Getting Even Harder," Foreign Affairs, August 9, 2019

Terrorism

Brian Pascus, "What is "Domestic Terrorism" and What Can the Law Do About It," CBS News, August 10, 2019
Charlie Savage, "What Could a Domestic Terrorism Law Do?" New York Times, August 7, 2019

Trade

Scott Lanman and Enda Curran, "Why the US Labeled China a Currency Manipulator," Washington Post, August 7, 2019
Doug Palmer, "New IMF Report Doesn't Back Trump's Currency Manipulation Charge Against China," Politico, August 9, 2019
Paul Krugman, "China Tries to Teach Trump Economics," New York Times, August 9, 2019
Shawn Donnan and Jenny Leonard, "Trump Still Has Plenty of Ways to Escalate His China Trade War," Bloomberg, August 9, 2019

Pop Culture

Yohana Desta, "Yes, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is Really Writing for the New Veronica Mars," Vanity Fair, September 26, 2018

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bombsville. I'm Erin Simpson.
0:11.9	I'm Roda Aingar.
0:13.7	And a special guest host this week, Meg Gulliford.
0:16.7	Hi, Meg.
0:18.3	Hi, how are y'all doing?
0:20.1	We're delightful.
0:21.6	Lauren is on a much-needed vacation, and so we wish her very well.
0:26.1	We can only imagine what she is drinking right now.
0:29.5	What are you two ladies drinking?
0:31.8	So I had, it was very exciting for me because normally I'm on the West Coast,
0:35.2	and this happens at some ungodly early hour, and I'm drinking. But today I had a plan to drink champagne cocktails. And then I ran out of
0:43.1	cherries and, you know, we have standards here. So I am instead drinking a lovely chardonnay called
0:49.9	heroin, which I showed Megan Aaron has a corkscrew that says pow on it.
0:54.9	So I'm ready for all of the action.
0:57.3	Man, there's a lot of Western New York going on on that sentence.
0:59.7	I'm not even sure how all to process it.
1:03.0	Cheers from Rhonda.
1:08.0	Meg, what are you drinking?
1:10.1	I am in Somerville, Massachusetts, so I am...
1:13.4	God bless.
1:14.4	I know.
1:15.2	At least it's not Medford.
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